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Port Elizabeth Conference Venues

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Port Elizabeth hotel conference venues range from opulent to efficient and host banqueting and gala events.

East London hosts the largest conference centre on the Garden Route, with 9 separate venues.

Other Garden Route hotel venues lend themselves to smaller events in Plettenberg Bay or Knysna as well as team building or corporate golf week-ends.

Why Choose Port Elizabeth for a Conference:

The Port city of Port Elizabeth is the home ground of South African auto manufacturing companies such a Ford, Daimler-Chrysler, Toyota, Volkswagen, General Motors and Delta Motor Corp, so the port itself boasts a large open area car terminal.

It also means that if you want to deal with the auto industry - this is the city to do it in. Likewise if you are in the fruit export business. As an export terminal for agriculture and farming industries, principally deciduous and citrus fruit and wool, Port Elizabeth serves the local industrial base and is the alternate container terminal when Durban or Cape Town container terminals are over-loaded.

Why Choose East London for a Conference:

Like Port Elizabeth, East London - or Buffalo City - as it is also known, is also home to South Africa's motor industry. The second largest manufacturing sector in the Eastern Cape is the textiles, clothing and leather industry.

The industries are well serviced by the more than 5 000 farmers making a living out of wool farming in the province. In fact, the Eastern Cape is the centre of South Africa's mohair industry and is the country's second largest wool producer.

All told, East London is responsible for 29% of South Africa's manufacturing output - which is why iit is now also home to the largest conference centre on the Garden Route.

The attraction of the smaller cities and towns like Plettenberg, Knysna or George for a conference is owed to the reason that they lend an ambience of country sereneity to any conference, convention or company "workshop" experience. Plus the added bonus of some really creative corporate team-building events or themed conferences

The airport at George, makes Knysna and Wilderness conveniently accessible for business travellers.